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#1 NinjaMouse

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 12:54

Hi All

Thought we could have a fun thread.......so fanboys are banned...... :)

What I wnated to ask, is what are the funniest moments yet seen in F1.......

I'd like to open the bidding with a Murray Walker commentary....I believe it was at the French GP in the mid 80s?.....and if I remember correctly, it was either the first time that this track had been used for F1...or the last time it was used for F1.....but the comedy went a bit like this.....(Wish I could find it on YouTube)....

Someones engine blew in a big way on the pit straight........Fire and flame.......he pulls up near the end of the pit wall...car going up like a over fueled BBQ........

Out trots a fire marshall, who is too affraid to get near enough to the car for his extuinguisher to work....this goes on for some moments...the fire really takes hold, and so a proper fire engine is called for.......it reverses near the end of the pit wall, into position where it can present a fire hose to the raging F1 car........the hose team are ready to shoot, and pull the hose handle to let the water go.....but at this exact moment, the hose pops out of the back of the fire truck, splasing water all over the track, and none on the fire......

All I can really remember from Murrays commentary was his final sarcastic comments...something like

"A truely Brilliant performance from the fire marshalls".......

Any other funny F1/Motorsport tales?

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#2 Tenmantaylor

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 13:00

- Senna Irvine spat, the convo excert someone posted was hilarious where Eddie was goading him in true playground fashion.

- Sutil running like a girl at Montreal

- Sutil stripping for a girl(!)

#3 rookie

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 13:03

Taki Inoue, Hungary 95.



#4 wingwalker

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 13:05

I found videp yesterday, pretty funny considering the circumstances.


Imola 2004 press conference With MSC explaining how he did not see Montoya, Montoya calling him an blind and idiot and Button looking away


Another Montoya one: oh, deer "like a horse with horns".

#5 rookie

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 13:12

Brambilla winning in 75. If your not familiar with the story, I kid you not, this is what happened when he crossed the line to win.

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

#6 SchuOz

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 13:16

F1 Digital Bloopers and Funny Bits!



#7 Suntrek

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 13:34

I think this is one of the major comedy moments in F1. :D

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

#8 Maximus

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 13:46

Not F1 but close, Bjorn Wirdheim slowing down before the finish line so Kiesa snatches the win in Monaco.

A classic the DC unconventional pitlane entry , a Hamilton move "avant la lettre" one might say ;)

Montoya bumps into a stationary cameraman and starts shouting obscenities.

Piquet and Salazar fight in Hockenheim.

#9 pRy

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 14:01

Hakkinen Irvine water fight



#10 ensign14

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 14:16

Originally posted by rookie
Brambilla winning in 75. If your not familiar with the story, I kid you not, this is what happened when he crossed the line to win.

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

First time I've seen that. Sums up the dear old Monza Gorilla. :)

But the all-time winner of this is Taki Inoue.

#11 stevewf1

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 14:39

Originally posted by rookie
Brambilla winning in 75. If your not familiar with the story, I kid you not, this is what happened when he crossed the line to win.

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related


I remember reading at the time Brambilla was so thrilled with the win, he failed to keep both hands on the wheel (celebrating) and lost the car. :)

#12 D.M.N.

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 14:43



- Montoya strop
- He was having a shit
- Coulthard imagining nipples. Rosential's comment after - "That's fantastic" :rotfl:

#13 John B

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 15:24

Hard to beat some of the FISA/FOCA moments from around 1981. Some favorites....imagine if there had been a BB from this time with these antics :D

-The teams trying to unsuccessfully copy Brabham's active suspension during the height of the bickering at Zolder, with cars driving around in practice with various corners stuck in the air. Villeneuve managed a 4th with a Ferrari that was all screwed up.

-Colin Chapman concluding an angry letter over banning of the Lotus 88 with "By the time you read this I will be watching the U.S. space shuttle, an engineering achievement which will refresh me from what I've been through here."

-The driver strike in a secluded hotel at the start of 1982, with Bruno Giacomelli drawing cartoon caricatures of various F1 personnel.

-Rene Arnoux arrested for driving to his hotel with a policeman on the hood of his car after he wouldn't wait in a traffic line (Jacques Laffite managed to almost get Prost arrested by mistake)

-Alan Jones getting out of his highway car to confront a motorist, then regretting it when two large men emerged from the other car...he drove the next race(s) with a cast on his wrist :lol:

Also:

-Any of the solemn, joyless podiums during the Prost/Senna/Piquet/Mansell era.

#14 Collombin

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 16:01

The finest pitlane exit in F1 history. The element of surprise will always keep a driver one step ahead of his rivals.




#15 saudoso

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 17:10

Originally posted by E.B.
The finest pitlane exit in F1 history. The element of surprise will always keep a driver one step ahead of his rivals.



That ferrari looked like a zakspeed or I don't know what else...

#16 Speed_Racer

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 17:39

DC at 1995 Adelaide ... lol!



#17 Josta

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 19:34

Definitely Taki.

#18 Josta

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 19:37

Originally posted by E.B.
The finest pitlane exit in F1 history. The element of surprise will always keep a driver one step ahead of his rivals.



:up: :up: :up:

Cooool.

#19 Matt Hughes

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 23:46

I'm convinced I saw this, but as I was only six at the time my mind may be playing tricks on me. Anyhow, the BBC were showing the build up to the start of the 1989 Belgian Grand Prix with some shots from the crowded grid. There were the cars, there were the personel, there were the minglers... and there, having a quick pee in a nearby bush, was Olivier Grouillard.

Not seen it since, but I'm reasonably sure it happened.

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#20 Aquarius

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 23:52

Originally posted by saudoso


That ferrari looked like a zakspeed or I don't know what else...


I think it was f1rejects.com who said that the 1993 model Ferraris looked like the "Dallaras' not-too-distant cousins" :D. That white stripe sure was :rolleyes:

Here's a comparison: Ferrari and Dallara

As for F1 comedy...

Gerhard Berger adjust his Benetton's mirror

Other misc humorous clips

This is IRL not F1, but definitely funny (warning: profanity!)

Eddie Cheever collects Eliseo Salazar

#21 FLB

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 00:17

Originally posted by Matt Hughes
I'm convinced I saw this, but as I was only six at the time my mind may be playing tricks on me. Anyhow, the BBC were showing the build up to the start of the 1989 Belgian Grand Prix with some shots from the crowded grid. There were the cars, there were the personel, there were the minglers... and there, having a quick pee in a nearby bush, was Olivier Grouillard.

Not seen it since, but I'm reasonably sure it happened.

I don't know about Grouillard, but the international feed caught Gregor Foitek in the same act at Phoenix in 1990.

#22 OfficeLinebacker

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 02:57

Two words:

"****ing Raikkonen!"



Also, a recent Dale, Jr. radio transmission:

"Can anyone hear me? Hello? What're y'all doin' up there, ****in' playing paddycakes or somethin?"

#23 Ivan

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 05:24

Originally posted by Tenmantaylor

- Sutil stripping for a girl(!)

I met that lady reporter at Indy a few years ago...She was in the museum doing a story.

#24 giacomo

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 07:41

Hamiltons first attempt into acting as the flying god Apollo. And he expected it to look cool.

#25 MichaelPM

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 11:46

Schumacher's replacement doing this


Prompting some witty soul to do this
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#26 Maximus

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 11:56

Good one :up:

#27 saudoso

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 13:16

Just found this:



#28 bigears

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 15:07

Originally posted by NinjaMouse
I'd like to open the bidding with a Murray Walker commentary....I believe it was at the French GP in the mid 80s?.....and if I remember correctly, it was either the first time that this track had been used for F1...or the last time it was used for F1.....but the comedy went a bit like this.....(Wish I could find it on YouTube)....

Someones engine blew in a big way on the pit straight........Fire and flame.......he pulls up near the end of the pit wall...car going up like a over fueled BBQ........

Out trots a fire marshall, who is too affraid to get near enough to the car for his extuinguisher to work....this goes on for some moments...the fire really takes hold, and so a proper fire engine is called for.......it reverses near the end of the pit wall, into position where it can present a fire hose to the raging F1 car........the hose team are ready to shoot, and pull the hose handle to let the water go.....but at this exact moment, the hose pops out of the back of the fire truck, splasing water all over the track, and none on the fire......

All I can really remember from Murrays commentary was his final sarcastic comments...something like

"A truely Brilliant performance from the fire marshalls".......


It was Philippe Streiff's engine fire at the 1986 French Grand Prix in Paul Ricard.

His Tyrrell caught fire and parked outside the pits entry. A marshal comes in with an extinguisher but the fire was too strong. So a large fire truck arrived at the scene. Then when some of the firemen was ready to put some foam into the car, the tank of the foam had too much pressure and spat out the hose from the tank!

It split a lot of foam into the entry of the pitlane!

Very fitting especially after de Angelis' fatal accident.

#29 Lazarus II

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 16:11

It's got to be Nelson Piquet parading around the grid in front of Senna wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with "Nelson Piquet, Brazil's fastest STRAIGHT F1 driver".

#30 fpbecker

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 17:23

Oh deer.

#31 SlateGray

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 23:25

LH C07

:rotfl:

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#33 Rob

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 09:23

Ferrari taking out three tyres for Eddie Irvine's pit stop. Nurburgring '99 I believe.

#34 postajegenye

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 09:24

Originally posted by Rob
Ferrari taking out three tyres for Eddie Irvine's pit stop. Nurburgring '99 I believe.


That was unbelievable.

#35 stevvy1986

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 09:27

and then when they got the 4th tyre out,deciding to have a commitee meeting about it before putting it on!

#36 Mark Bennett

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 11:41

Ralf being left up in the air on jacks as the rest of the field departed on the warm-up lap...

#37 secessionman

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 12:09

Originally posted by Rob
Ferrari taking out three tyres for Eddie Irvine's pit stop. Nurburgring '99 I believe.


I remain convinced to this day that that was deliberate.

#38 stevvy1986

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 12:14

Originally posted by Mark Bennett
Ralf being left up in the air on jacks as the rest of the field departed on the warm-up lap...


haha,that was a bit of a bizarre incident n to an extent a bizarre race-first start frentzen stalled so was an aborted start,the 2nd attempted start montoya stalled on the grid before the formation lap,then with the 3rd start after the red flag,ralf endin up stuck in the air on the jacks!

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 13:23





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#40 johndej

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 16:05

shumi putting the hurt on his own pit crew was kinda funny in one of those nut shot ways.

#41 scheivlak

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 16:58

Originally posted by stevvy1986
and then when they got the 4th tyre out,deciding to have a commitee meeting about it before putting it on!

Still, it has to be said that the committee made the right choice - soon Irvine on those last-moment-choice dries passed Hakkinen who had changed swiftly for wets just before....

#42 saudoso

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 16:58

Originally posted by johndej
shumi putting the hurt on his own pit crew was kinda funny in one of those nut shot ways.


Ouch!!! That guy must have perfect teeth now :eek:

#43 PiquetPete

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 18:39

- Piquet/Prost

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related - Piquet/Mansell/Murray Walker


Good thread this one! :clap:

#44 Jhope

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 18:51

Originally posted by saudoso


Ouch!!! That guy must have perfect teeth now :eek:


That was Nigel Stepney btw.. :D

#45 saudoso

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 19:07

Originally posted by Jhope


That was Nigel Stepney btw.. :D


That explains a lot...

#46 OfficeLinebacker

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 19:23

Originally posted by PiquetPete
- Piquet/Prost

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related - Piquet/Mansell/Murray Walker


Good thread this one! :clap:


OK those are good. Awesome, good natured behind-the-scenes stuff.

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 19:40

great environment, a family

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#48 Youichi

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 21:00

Originally posted by Rob
Ferrari taking out three tyres for Eddie Irvine's pit stop. Nurburgring '99 I believe.


http://es.youtube.co...h?v=wqlbr9CpBIU


Originally posted by Mark Bennett
Ralf being left up in the air on jacks as the rest of the field departed on the warm-up lap...


Ferrari did it to Barrichello too.
http://es.youtube.co...h?v=rI0aq-sbQ-M

Mansell leaving the Williams pit with only 3 wheels attached
http://es.youtube.co...h?v=EMClvLIx_10

And JPM leaving with the fuel hose attached


#49 jesee

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 21:37

This has to be the funniest moment in a decade. Kimi was so funny then and he made brundle nearly have a heart attack! :rotfl:



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Posted 19 August 2008 - 15:53

Piquet giving Senna a finger somewhere in the 1986-1987 seasons.